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11/04/2026
"Work hard. Be passionate. Love what you do. And never give up."
Colleen Callander 's father spoke these words to her when she was 16, leaving school to work retail.
Nearly 40 years later, she still recites them every single day.
These weren't just nice words. They became the foundation of a 30-year career that took her from shop floor to CEO.
But here's what makes a mantra powerful:
It's not just motivation. It's a foundation you return to when everything else is uncertain.
When you're doubting yourself. When the path gets hard. When you don't know what to do next.
You return to your foundation.
This is exactly what the Bamboo Method teaches:
Building foundations you can return toânot just in your career, but in your health, your resilience, your nervous system.
Foundations that allow you to bend without breaking.
Colleen's mantra became her anchor. What's yours?
And more importantlyâwhat foundations are you building so that anchor actually holds?
MS. Hospital. The kind of fear that lives in your bones.
I tried everything conventional medicine had. And Iâm grateful for it. But it wasnât until I discovered kinesiology â until I stopped fighting my body and started listening to it â that something shifted.
16 years in remission.
A method that works.
And a deep knowing that you are not broken.
Your symptoms are not your sentence.
Theyâre a signal.
If youâve been told to âjust manage itâ... if youâre exhausted from white-knuckling your way through life... if part of you wonders if thereâs another way â
there is. đż
Hit the link in my bio or DM me the word HEAL and letâs start a conversation.
01/04/2026
Iâm honoured to share that my MS remission story has been featured on Rebuilding My Healthâa platform that documents real recovery stories from people whoâve healed conditions doctors said were unfixable.
At 29, I woke up paralysed on the left side of my body. The neurologist told me Iâd need to manage MS for life, that Iâd probably be in a wheelchair.
But I walked again.
Not through conventional medicine alone, but through kinesiology, nervous system regulation, gut healing, and addressing the root causes behind my symptoms.
Casey Hibbard, founder of Rebuilding My Health, interviewed me about the 6 pillars that became my roadmap to remissionâthe same BAMBOO Method I now teach to others navigating autoimmune conditions and chronic illness.
If youâve been told your condition is something youâll just have to âmanage,â I hope my story offers you a different possibility.
Thank you, Casey, for the work you do and for giving people hope when they need it most. đ
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I'm honoured to share that my MS remission story has been featured on Rebuilding My Healthâa platform that documents real recovery stories from people who've healed conditions doctors said were unfixable.
At 29, I woke up paralysed on the left side of my body. The neurologist told me I'd need to manage MS for life, that I'd probably be in a wheelchair.
But I walked again.
Not through conventional medicine alone, but through kinesiology, nervous system regulation, gut healing, and addressing the root causes behind my symptoms.
Casey Hibbard, founder of Rebuilding My Health, interviewed me about the 6 pillars that became my roadmap to remissionâthe same BAMBOO Method I now teach to others navigating autoimmune conditions and chronic illness.
If you've been told your condition is something you'll just have to "manage," I hope my story offers you a different possibility.
Thank you, Casey, for the work you do and for giving people hope when they need it most. đ
At 29, Amanda was told she had a 50% chance of ever walking again.
Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis five years earlier, she had suddenly become paralyzed on her left side.
But after movement in her toe inspired hope, she dove into physical therapies, and was running within six weeks.
Now in remission for 16 years, her path to recovery was paved with movement, targeted nutrition, gut health, mind-body practices, and emotional healing.
Check out Amanda's story to learn more and find her at Bend Like Bamboo.
That's what Colleen Callander told her parents at 16, after completing a summer job at her local Just Jeans store.
Her mum had finished school at 13. Her dad at 14. They'd worked incredibly hard to give their children the education they never had.
And here was Colleen, walking away from Year 12 to work in retail.
The look on their faces? Absolutely gobsmacked.
But her father's response became her mantra for life:
"Work hard. Be passionate. Love what you do. And never give up."
40 years later, Colleen went from that shop floor to CEO of Sportsgirl. From dropping out at 16 to leading one of Australia's most iconic fashion brands for 13 years.
Your path doesn't have to look like everyone else's.
Sometimes the "wrong" decision is exactly rightâwhen you're building it on the right foundations.
Here's what Colleen's story teaches us about foundations:
Success isn't about the credentials you have. It's about the foundation you buildâpassion, work ethic, resilience, and the courage to trust your own path.
The Bamboo Method Foundations course teaches you how to build these exact foundations for YOUR lifeâwhether you're navigating chronic illness, executive burnout, or life transitions.
âIâve tried everything. Nothing works for me.â
I hear this all the time. And I get it.
Youâve seen specialists. Taken supplements. Done the therapies. Tried the diets. Read the books. Attended the workshops.
And still, the symptoms persist. Or the burnout returns. Or the patterns repeat.
So youâve started to believe maybe YOUâRE the problem. Maybe youâre too broken. Too far gone. Too complicated.
But hereâs what I know after 16 years:
Youâre not too broken to heal. You may not have addressed your nervous system.
Thatâs the missing piece. The root cause beneath all the symptoms and stress and sabotage patterns.
The Bamboo Method doesnât just treat whatâs showing up on the surface. We access whatâs stuck in your subconsciousâthe patterns your body learned years ago when it was trying to survive.
And we teach it a new way. To bend instead of break. To regulate instead of react. To heal instead of just cope.
Youâre not the problem. The approach has been.
Ready to try something that actually addresses the root?
Darron Goralsky sees this all the timeâa patient comes in wearing a dental splint for grinding and clenching.
The dentist saw the signs. Worn teeth. Jaw tension. So they did something to help: a splint to protect the teeth from further damage.
Which is what they're supposed to do. But unless the airway is also addressed, they can be treating the symptom, not the driver.
The grinding and clenching? That's often an airway problem. The body is trying to open the airway during sleep.
And here's where it gets worse:
Some splints take up too much room in the mouth. Which means the patient is now clenching and grinding MORE to try to keep their airway open.
The well-intentioned treatment is making the underlying problem worse.
This is what happens when we treat symptoms in isolation.
You can protect the teeth. But if you don't address the airway, you haven't solved the problemâyou've just put a bandaid over it.
Here's what this teaches us about healing:
Whether it's TMJ, chronic stress, or burnoutâyour body isn't malfunctioning.
It's trying to solve a problem. And until you address the ROOT cause, you'll keep chasing symptoms.
This is why foundational work matters.
The Bamboo Method Foundations course teaches you the 6 pillars that create the optimal environment for your body to actually healânot just cope.
You learn how to regulate your nervous system, identify what's driving your symptoms, and build sustainable patterns that support healing from the ground up.
Because real transformation doesn't come from managing symptoms. It comes from addressing what's creating them.
Calling kinesiologists and coaches â April mentoring intake is now open.
If your clients are living with chronic symptoms, fatigue, autoimmune conditions or that frustrating feeling of ânothing is workingâ and you want to feel more confident, more skilled, and more clear about how to actually help them Iâd love to work with you.
As an AIK registered mentor and Sports Kinesiologist specialising in autoimmune disease, I mentor practitioners across clinical practice, business development, marketing, goal-setting and the real challenges of building a sustainable practice.
The thing about kinesiology that still surprises me after 16 years:
How quickly the body responds when you address whatâs actually stuck.
That is what I love about Kinesiology. kinesiology bypasses your conscious mind to access patterns stored in your nervous systemâthe survival responses and unprocessed experiences your bodyâs been holding onto.
Like my client whoâd tried everything for bladder weakness post-kids. Pelvic floor physio, exercises, specialists. When we tested her nervous system, her body showed us she was still holding the fear in the body. After a few sessions, her pelvic floor finally relaxed enough to do its job.
Or my client who is an exec who kept waking at 2am in full panic mode. We found his nervous system was stuck in a stress response from a board meeting six months earlier. His body never got the signal that the threat was over.
These arenât miracles. Theyâre what happens when you address the whole person and go to the source instead of chasing symptoms.
Your nervous system remembers everythingâeven things your conscious mind has moved on from. And sometimes it just needs permission to let go.
Thatâs what the Bamboo Method does. We find whatâs stuck. We release it. We teach your system a new way to respond.
Want to explore what might be stuck for you?
"What if adding more practitioners is irresponsible?"
That's the question Darron Goralsky wrestled with when he was working 60-hour weeks and burning out.
Most healthcare practitioners think scaling means compromising care. That if they're not doing it themselves, the quality drops.
But Darron realised something critical:
Burning out doesn't serve anyone. Not him. Not his patients. Not his family.
So he hired a company that taught him a formula:
To pull out 15 hours from his 60-hour week, he would hire, train, and mentor one physiotherapist. Get them to 80% capacityâwhere they could deliver excellent care independently. Only then would he hire the next person for another 15 hours.
This wasn't about rapid expansion. It was about sustainable scaling.
Train deeply. Mentor intentionally. Build capacity slowly.
The result? He went from being the bottleneck to building a team that could serve more patientsâwithout sacrificing quality or his wellbeing.
Here's the truth most high-performers resist:
You don't have to do it all yourself for it to be done well. But you do have to invest in training others properly.
Your expertise is too valuable to stay locked inside your 60-hour work week.
From paralysed at 29 to teaching my clients how to bend, not break.
16 years ago, I woke up unable to move my arm and leg. MS had taken over the left hand side of my body, and doctors told me to âmanage my symptomsâ and accept my new limitations.
But I knew there was more to it.
I combined evidence-based medicine and built new foundations with Kinesiology, nutrition, movement and a fresh mindset that would reduce my stress levels alongside advice from a neurologist that supported this balanced approach.
I investigated every root causeâstress patterns, inflammation, beliefs keeping my body in survival mode.
And I didnât just improve. I went into full remission.
That journey became the Bamboo Methodâthe same framework now helping people heal from chronic conditions AND leaders build sustainable success.
Because the principles are the same:
â Balance your nervous system first
â Anchor new patterns
â Master the tools
â Breakthrough old blocks
â Optimise your energy
â Own your transformation
Whether youâre managing chronic symptoms or in burnout, your body is trying to tell you something.
That's what Darron Goralsky calls itâwhen patients get lost in the void.
Here's how it happens:
â A patient presents with pain. Maybe it's jaw pain. Or headaches. Or neck tension.
â The doctor treats the most prevalent symptom. Refers them based on that one thing.
â Jaw pain? You see a dentist.
â Headaches? You see a neurologist.
â Neck tension? You see a physio.
But here's the problem:
They're all treating different parts of the same condition.
And the patient? They're lost in the Bermuda Triangleâbouncing between specialists, getting treatments that might not be addressing the root cause.
No one's looking at the whole picture.
This is why so many people with chronic conditions feel unheard. Misunderstood. Stuck in a loop of treatments that don't quite work.
Because they're being treated based on their loudest symptomânot the underlying pattern creating all of them.
Darron's approach? Look at the whole person. Connect the dots. Find the root.
Your body isn't compartmentalised. Your treatment shouldn't be either.
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Welcome to Bend Like Bamboo, specialising in optimising health and recovery from stress, illness or any setback in life. To bend like bamboo is to bend in change with resilience.
In 2009 Amanda Campbell suffered a major MS attack that left her paralysed and was given a 50% chance of ever walking again. Unprepared to accept this as her fate, Amanda learned to focus on what she wanted instead of what she was scared of. With a lot of determination and the help of her doctors and a Kinesiologist, within six weeks, she stunned us all by not only walking, but running.
This prompted her to swap a fast-paced career in the fashion industry to go back to study to enable her to understand how she achieved her recovery.
Having become an accredited Sports Kinesiologist, Amanda founded Bend Like Bamboo www.bendlikebamboo.com her private practice in 2013, where Amanda has dedicated her life helping others rebuild their lives from illness and stress. Bend Like Bamboo specialises in helping people to bend with change with resilience to optimise their health. Amanda sees clients recovering from Autoimmune disease, setbacks and physical symptoms.
Amanda co-founded Nourissh www.nourissh.com with her partner and VinoMofo in 2014, delivering ready-made meals to people across Melbourne, after she discovered the role ethically sourced and nutrient dense food played in her recovery.
Taking a balanced approach, Amanda believes that nourishing her body on a cellular level, feeling good emotionally and connecting with herself again, gave her the best chance of recovery and living a happy fulfilling life.
As a Speaker www.amandacampbell.com.au Amanda Campbell speaks at events and businesses to educate and inspire others about why they should care. She believes that you can make a transformation in your life and that renewal can be possible if you give your body the right environment it needs. Amanda has inspired Australianâs to not only prevent poor health, but also to reset from an illness or any setback in life. To Bend like bamboo is to bend with all the change that life brings with resilience, and evolve constantly to be the best you.
Bend like Bamboo at work is a health and wellbeing program, that empowers busy women and men, to optimise their physical and mental health. In a workshop designed to inspire and educate your team to optimise their mindset, they can maximise productivity and happiness in the workplace, building inner resilience as a result.
